Thursday, October 28, 2010

Halloween Episode 36!

Welcome to our special Halloween show, Episode 36 of the Prairie Belles Podcast! To listen to the podcast, either click on the mp3 player below OR click on "LISTEN TO EPISODE 36" to open a media player on your desktop. You can also check us out on iTunes!
LISTEN TO EPISODE 36

What we mentioned this week:
  • Al Brant's CD "Wide Open" Release Show on Thursday, October 28th @ Expressionz Cafe. 8pm $15 in advance, $20 @ the door. Get your E-TICKETS!
  • Oddball Productions presents the Edmonton Music Awards! Want to know more? Want to be involved! Check out their website for FAQ's and contact info!
  • Halloween Edition of Theatre Sports @ Varscona Theatre. On Friday October 29th, the evening begins with Uncle Zombie. The second half is Canada's own Alpha Flight vs. the Invaders in Improv Secret Wars. $10 or $8 Rapid Fire Theatre members.
  • Jazz & Reflections have returned to Ritchie United Church on Sunday afternoons. From 3:30pm - 5pm, this week Don Berner! 
  • Plan Ahead - Peter Katz with Jeff Morris @ Axis Cafe on November 5th. 8pm, $10 and E-TICKETS are available! This show is sure to sell out so get your tickets now! *We featured Peter's song Oliver's Tune. 
FRIDAY
  1. Rural Alberta Advantage at Myer Horowitz Theatre. 7pm,  $20 and can be purchased at TicketMaster! 
  2. Charlotte & Sarah @ Good Earth Coffeehouse in Summerside, 7pm
  3. Don Amero Band @ Axis Cafe 8pm $10 E-TICKETS
SATURDAY
  1. Judith Garcia & Oscar Jose Garcia Steeps Tea Lounge in Old Glenora 7pm FREE SHOW
  2. Po Girl @ the Haven Social Club 7:30pm $20
  3. Foundation Concerts presents Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band @ McDougal United Church. Tickets are $27.50 and the show starts @ 7pm. *We featured his song Long Shadows. 
Brian McLeod Guitar Workshop - bring your guitar & adventurous spirit to explore new musical ideas. Tickets are $20, taking place on Sunday November 7th @ Expressionz Cafe. Contact Brian for more information!


FEATURE ARTIST
This week we featured Ayla Brook! So, here's the scoop. You may know Ayla Brook as the singer-songwriter for AA Sound System, and their albums as Lily Plain…You’re Hardly Poor and Laissez-Faire. Well, when Marek moved to Victoria, and Lane plotted to move to Toronto (but started a music school instead), it looked Ayla wasn't going to have a band to play in. But Ayla had half a dozen old songs and a handful of fresh ones to clear out of the song closet before restocking it with brand new material and figuring out what to do about new batteries for his sound system. So it was back to the Pine Ridge Farm in Lily Plain, Saskatchewan, with John Blerot engineering and Danny Michel producing (and a couple ladies and a baby to keep everyone sane), to lay the tunes down one warm June week in 2007. No (real) drums were used. Just foot stomps and hand claps in the wooden high-roofed room. Late night rummy gang vocals were added to creaking floor boards and acoustic strums. Everyone recording in the same room - no isolated control room here. The wind sneaking onto the tracks disguised itself as tape hiss along with the clinking of glasses and stray bird songs. After The Morning After is an album about love, about comraderie, about being in the places you belong. From the gentle bounce of “Wake Up Early” to the dreamy soulfulness of “Wonder”, Ayla and friends have created a kitchen party of the heart. 
Ayla has a show with Wool on Wolves at the Pawn Shop on November 27th! Get your E-TICKETS!

 We'd love to hear from you, so please twitter us, facebook us, or email us at prairiebelles@gmail.com Until next time! xo

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Episode 35!

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Prairie Belles Podcast!

To listen to the podcast, either click on the mp3 player below OR click on "LISTEN TO EPISODE 35" to open a media player on your desktop. You can also check us out on iTunes!

LISTEN TO EPISODE 35


What we mentioned this week:
  • Joni Delaurier and Troy Kokol got married! They're two amazing singer/songwriters that you MUST check out!
  • Attention Alberta Music members! There is a branch new website! Make sure to check it out.
~*~Daneel's Theatre Spotlight~*~
The Infinite Shiver presented by Teatro La Quindicina is playing from October 7 - 23, 2010 at the Varscona Theatre. Tickets range from $22 - $28 and can be purchased from Tix On the Square. For more information about the show and show times check out the website! 

FRIDAY
  1. Justin Rutledge @ Haven Social Club $20 in advance, 7:30pm
    We featured Justin's song Mrs. Montgomery.
  2. Short of Able with the British Columbians @ Brixx Bar & Grill $10 in advance, $12 @ the door, 9pm
  3. Douglas Mitchell @ the Carrots Community Arts Coffee House 7pm
    We featured Douglas Mitchell's song Cardboard Boxes.
SATURDAY
  1. Northern Lights Folk Club presents Ron Hynes @ Expressionz Café $18 in advance, $22 @ the door, 8pm
  2. The Boudoirs @ Glenora Bistro $7 @ the door 8pm
  3. Louise Dawson @ Jeffrey’s Café & Wine Bar $10, 8pm

  • Congratulations to Lucas Chaisson! Lucas is nominated for "Young Performer of the Year" at this year's Canadian Folk Music Awards. Lucas will be a guest with CKUA's Grant Stovel on the TransCanada's Alberta Backstage Series. Way to go LUCAS!
  • LIVE MUSIC MAKEOVER - Vocal and Live Performance Workshop series with Rhea March & Robyne Walters starts Tuesday, November 16th from 7 to 9 pm! The 5 part series will run from 7 to 9 pm on Tuesday, Nov 16th - Thursday, Nov 18th, Tuesday, Nov 23 and Thursday, Nov 24 and conclude with a concert on November 26th featuring each workshop participant. Register before November 1st and take advantage of the Early Bird registration fee of: $179.00 After November 1st: $199.00 Register at YEGLive.com.
  • Music lovers Reg & Crispin Kontz invite you to an Autumn House Concert on Saturday, October 23rd featuring U22 Artists: Lyra Brown & Scenic Route to Alaska (Trevor Mann & Shea Connor) Seating is limited, so please RSVP to Reg & Crispin by email: marmich@planet.eon.net or phone: 780-454-6294. Finger food Pot Luck at 6:30 p.m. Music starting at 7 p.m. Admission: Ages 10 to 21: $10.00 Ages 22 & over: $20.00 (children 12 and under are free).


FEATURE ARTIST
This week we featured F&M! Songwriters Rebecca and Ryan Anderson – Rebecca classically trained; Ryan a veteran of Edmonton’s indie scene – belong to this strain of music-making. The long-married couple is the heart of F&M, an Edmonton-based band that began life, as many bands do, as an entirely different project (in this case, one named after a local funeral parlour). It slowly dawned on Rebecca and Ryan that they were calving like an iceberg from the original band, bobbing in a sea of Their Own Thingness, and F&M was born in 2006, made up of just his guitar, her piano and accordion, and both of their distinctive voices. They have had a number of releases with Shameless records including Let Every Light Shine released in 2007 and Every Light Must Fade in 2008. Their new album Sincerely, F&M releases this November and kicks off with a cross Canada tour starting in BC.
Their Edmonton release date is a multi arts evening with music, two short films, live art and wine pairings! It's at the Haven Social Club on November 12th. There are E-TICKETS available so don't miss out!
*We featured their new songs Lovely, Lovely.

 We'd love to hear from you, so please twitter us, facebook us, or email us at prairiebelles@gmail.com Until next time! xo
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Episode 34!

Welcome to Episode 34 of the Prairie Belles Podcast! To listen to the podcast, either click on the mp3 player below OR click on "LISTEN TO EPISODE 34" to open a media player on your desktop. You can also check us out on iTunes!

LISTEN TO EPISODE 34

What we mentioned this week:
  • Die-Nasty Season 20 Premiere @ The Varscona Theatre 730pm on Monday, October 18th. Tickets are available at the door, starting at 6:30PM every Monday.
  • Reminder – heart+soul: a designer’s collective is happening October 15th!
  • The Application Agreement for the 2011 Edmonton Fringe is now available online.
  • YEG Fall/Pre-Winter Fashion Show is held in support of women and children's local shelters on October 16th 7pm @ the Empire Ballroom
  • ELOPE Musical Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for its 2011 production of Into the Woods. Production dates for the show are April 27 - 30th. Direction by Richard Winnick, Musical Direction by Brad Heintzman. To book your audition, email elopeauditions@hotmail.com or call 780-423-1144
  • LitFest: Edmonton's Nonfiction Festival October 14 - 25
    •  LitFest supports Story Slam this Fall. Story Slam is a monthly storytelling competition at The Haven Social Club that features new work by a diverse group of Edmonton authors. Ten original stories stir the adrenalin then five audience members select the evenings best. The atmosphere is fierce yet celebratory. October 20th, 7pm @ The Haven Social Club
    • Ezra Levant and Satya Das have two starkly different perspectives on Alberta's oilsands development.  The two men square off, and invite the audience to join in the discussion at City Centre Mall on October 19th, 12pm @ CBC Centre Stage in City Centre Mall
    • Nonfiction Writer Jam will be hosted by Carol Holmes of the Writers Guild of Alberta. It is presented in partnership with the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. October 23rd at noon @ Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
  • The Gizmo Guys @ Maclab Theatre onOctober 17th 2pm $10 - Performing as the Gizmo Guys, Allan Jacobs and Barrett Felker have amazed and amused audiences around the world. They have made numerous television appearances, won international juggling competitions, and taught at top circus schools, but what makes their act so appealing is their uniquely winning combination of dazzling technique and infectious humour. The Gizmo Guys' rapid-fire act exhilarates and inspires sidesplitting laughter in audience members of all ages.
  • Honorable mention: Ryan Cook. We feature his song, If I Know Nothing Else.





FRIDAY
1. Lloyd Mac Hardy @ Glenora Bistro 8pm $10
2. Jess Dollimont @ Jeffrey’s Café 8pm $10
3. Edmonton Classical Guitar Society presents Jerome Decharme @ Muttart Hall 8pm $20
SATURDAY
1. Dave Hodson CD RELEASE @ Haven Social Club 730pm $12
2. The Common presents Good Life Saturdays with Bob Trampoline & Sergio Valente 9pm
3. Kinniburgh Philips with Steve Ennis 8pm $10 E-TICKETS
* We feature their song, Rain.

FEATURE ARTIST
This week's feature artists is eigtheen-year old Alee, aka Alexanda Adomoski.  She is a young artist on the rise with performances and accolades which span Edmonton's Winspear Stage backed by the celebrity David Foster Band, gala charities, and reaching beyond the local music scene as a finalist in past/current songwriter competitions in the 2009 and 2010 Calgary Folk fest, south to Nashville, TN and a multiple award winner at a North American Music showcase as well as numerous local/surrounding area performance venues, including her fourth year at Big Valley Jamboree. The latest of many dreams, soon to be realized, is the recording of her first full-length album, with producer/roots artist Bobby Cameron. Alee has a show @ Axis Cafe on December 4th! Get your E-TICKETS! *Correction - we said December 18th by accident in the podcast but it is DECEMBER 4TH. Mark your calendars!

We'd love to hear from you, so please twitter us, facebook us, or email us at prairiebelles@gmail.com Until next time! xo
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Lucky Episode 33!

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Prairie Belles Podcast!

To listen to the podcast, either click on the mp3 player below OR click on "LISTEN TO EPISODE 33" to open a media player on your desktop. You can also check us out on iTunes!
LISTEN TO EPISODE 33

What we mentioned this week:
  • The Comedy Factory presents “So you think you’re funny” The finals are this Thursday at 8:30 PM, tickets are $15. Daneel's Uncle Brian is performing!
  • LitFest: Edmonton's Nonfiction Festival October 14 - 24 at various venues across Edmonton, make sure to check out the event schedule at their website!
  • A New Arts Market: The first Saturday of the month 10:00 - 3:00 pm starting October 2nd @ Expressionz Cafe
  • Movies on the Square October 8 & 9 - Sir Winston Churchill Square, 7-9pm. Movies playing are October 8th – Marmaduke and October 9th – Shrek – Forever After.
  • Wanna be part of a live studio audience? The Irrelevant Show is having a live taping on Thursday, October 14 at 8 p.m. at the Myer Horowitz Theatre. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster or at the InfoLink Booth at the Student's Union Building. Tickets are $18 or $13 with valid Student ID.
  • Accent Artists of the Week – Alex Vissia & The Most Bles’sed Man
    Accent Lounge – 9:30pm No Cover $4 Pints. Thursday, October 7th FACEBOOK INVITE
  • Plan Ahead Event – Lights @ Edmonton Events Centre on October 18th $25 7pm Get your tickets here!
~*~Daneel's Theatre Spotlight~*~
 Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson @ the Walterdale Playhouse
October 6-16 at 8:00pm Tickets are $12-$16 and are available
in advance from TIX on the Square or
at the door one-hour prior to each show (cash only)


FRIDAY
  1. Chloe Albert @ Blue Chair Café 8pm $10
  2. Carolyn Dawn Johnson @ the Arden Theatre 7:30pm $35
  3. Ashley Sacha @ Axis Café with Jaird 8pm $10 E-TICKETS
    *We featured Jaird's song Missing You.
SATURDAY
  1. Rob Taylor @ Devaney’s Irish Pub 9pm No Cover 
  2. Colin Linden @ Festival Place $30 7:30pm
  3. Jadea Kelly @ Empress Ale House 4pm No Cover
    *We featured Jadea's song Bumble Bee.

Open on Thanksgiving (thankfully!) Come and join us on Sunday, October 10th The Songwriter Stage at Expressionz Cafe Gives thanks for the special guest host: Ky Babyn. Doors at 6:00 - Open Stage from 7 to 10 pm (all original music).

FEATURE ARTIST
This week our feature artist is Manuela! Being half Kenyan and Swiss and having lived on three different continents and in four different countries with multiple self-released EP’s, Manuela is now calling Edmonton, Alberta, Canada home - at least for now. In February 2010 she released her first full-length album “A Different Kind of Fire,” on her own Independent label, Golden Recordings and followed this release with a Western Canadian tour to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Manuela took on the Executive Producer role for this album. Not only was she able to secure private funding but she also oversaw every aspect of it from the music production to the artwork to the manufacturing and distribution. She was even successful in securing valuable sponsorship for her Western Canadian tour from Budget Rentals, and Accent Inn Hotels in British Columbia.
With the support of Alberta Music, Urban Music Association of Canada, CBC Radio, CKUA, CJSR and Ourstage.com, Manuela is broadening her fan base one song at a time. After almost 15,000 plays on Ourstage.com her single “Circling Numbers” was voted on by thousands of listeners and placed Manuela fourth, regionally, in the recent Ourstage.com Lilith Fair Contest, in which Sarah McLachlan and her team reviewed each of the Top twenty ranked entries. Manuela is also emerging out to be one of the top Pop artists on Ourstage.com having spent 30 weeks on the BEST OF POP chart, peaking at number 15 and falling back to as low as number 32. We featured Manuela's song off her The Love EP called Little Suzie.

We'd love to hear from you, so please twitter us, facebook us, or email us at prairiebelles@gmail.com Until next time! xo
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